Amazon ECS Linux container instance management
When you use EC2 instances for your Amazon ECS workloads, you are responsible for maintaing the instances
Management procedures
Each Amazon ECS container agent version supports a different feature set and provides bug fixes from previous versions. When possible, we always recommend using the latest version of the Amazon ECS container agent. To update your container agent to the latest version, see Updating the Amazon ECS container agent.
To see which features and enhancements are included with each agent release, see https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/releases
Important
The minimum Docker version for reliable metrics is Docker version v20.10.13
and
newer, which is included in Amazon ECS-optimized AMI 20220607
and newer.
Amazon ECS agent versions 1.20.0
and newer have deprecated support for
Docker versions older than 1.9.0
.